Shared Intentionality and the Extended Mind: The UAW Interviews as Dialogical Field
Detroit-east side
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interviewees
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Murray Body
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UAW Local 2
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Pody, Fagan, Jones
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Dodge Main
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UAW Local 3
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Frankensteen, Watson, Ross, Harris, Adams, Ptazynski, Reynolds, Zaremba
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Plymouth
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UAW Local 51
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NLRB, Sweet, bus.hist.,
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Packard
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UAW Local 190
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McDaniel, Kujawski, Poplewski,Lindahl
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Michigan Steel Tube
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UAW Local 238 |
Klue
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Detroit Steel Products
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UAW Local 351
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Silver
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Midland Steel
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UAW Local 410
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N=24
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Chrysler Highland Park
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UAW Local 490
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Jenkins
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Detroit-Connor Ave
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interviewees
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Chrysler-Jefferson
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UAW Local 7
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Zeller, Carey
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Hudson
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UAW Local 154
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Anderson, Moore, Pody
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Briggs
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UAW Local 212
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Bill Mazey, Ernie Mazey, Morris, Vega
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Budd Wheel
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UAW 306
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Bauer
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Detroit-west side and Dearborn
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Ford
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UAW Local 600
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Lock, Llewelyn, Tappes
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Fleetwood
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UAW Local 15
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Anderson
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Ternstedt
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UAW Local 174
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UAW Local 157
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Flint
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Fisher Body 1
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Genski
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Chevrolet
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Jones
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Buick
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Bully
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A.C. Spark Plug
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Pontiac |
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GM Truck & Bus
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Fisher Body |
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Williams et. al. |
Pontiac Motors |
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Toledo
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Auto-Lite
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Chevrolet
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Willys-Overland
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Spicer Mfg.
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City Auto Stamping
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Logan Gear Co
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Bingham Stamping and Tool
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South Bend
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Bendix
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Studebaker
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Milwaukee
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Allis-Chalmers
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Seaman Body
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Cleveland
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Fisher Body
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White Motor
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The Geogrraphy of Agency: the bildungs-proletarians around whom formed the action networks of plebeian upstarts


Job Description for Wage Studies. Metal working industries
US Dept Labor, BLS. Nov., 1945.
Production
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Production
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non-Production
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Assembler (Class A, B, C)
Machine operator classifications
Automatic Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Radial (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Single- or Multiple-Spindle (Class A, B, C)
Engine-Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Grinding Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Machine-Tool operator, misc. machines
Milling-Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Power-Shear Operator (Class A, B, C)
Punch-Press Operator (Class A, B)
Screw-Machine Operator, Automatic (Class A, B, C)
Turret-Lathe Operator, Hand (Class A, B, C)
Swager
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Forging Press Operator, Hydraulic (Vertical)
Other metal-working occupations
Welder, Hand (Class A, B) (Bill Mazey, Frank Fagan interviews); Almdale and Newby on welding
Welder, Machine (Class A, B)
Polisher and Buffer, Metal (metal finishing)
Riveter, Hydraulic
Riveter, Pneumatic
Solderer (Edmund Kord)
Non-metalworking occupations in the Auto industry
Trim (Joe Adams and Art Grudzen on trim)
paint (Paul Silver on paint testing)
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Maintenance, Tool and Die, Shipping and Receiving
Carpenter, Maintenance
Crane Operator, Electric Bridge
Die Setter
Die Sinker
Tool and Die Maker
Trucker, Hand
Trucker, Power
Electrician, Maintenance
Electrician, Production
Millwright
Set-Up Man, Machine Tools
Loader and Unloader
Stock Clerk
Inspector (Class A, B, C)
Tester (Class A, B, C)
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Classes A, B, and C for Assembler, Lathe Operator, and Grinder
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Daniel Nelson, “How the UAW Grew,”
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UAW Talking Points
Bildung and Ressentiment
Civil War, 1936 to 1941: Midland Steel (readings)
Schiller Hall: Bildung and Modernity (readings)
Joe Adams on atheism of his peers (the Reuther group and beyond) North Dakota, Postel, Montgomery, Guttman
Orality and Literacy Ong, Olson, Luria, Heretz, Mironov
Paul Silver (Detroit Steel Products) on print vs. oral cultures on the shopfloor ONG LURIA
Saul Wellman (CP, Flint) on escape from the idiocy of orality
Rosenfeld and Musso
Bildungsproletarians and their other
Herman Burt on Polish women
Bill Jenkins on the Bulgarians
Williams et. al. on hillbillies in Pontiac LIST n=37
Shelton Tappes and Herman Burt on Uncle Toms
Frank Fagan on the "Americans"
Plebeian upstarts
Emergence of a UAW local
Bud Simon's letter; robt travis letter
Departmental biographies
Frank Fagan on welding and welders
Joe Adams and Art Grudzen on the Trim department
Edmund Kord's synoptic view
the Flying Squadrons: a workers' militia?
Events
Bud Simon on the firing of the two welders
•John Anderson re 3 locals
•John Anderson on CP in flux, critical period (this is part of Thermidor)
Joe Adams on 1943 strike
Earl Reynolds on first encounter
Edmund Kord on stubb out cigarettes
George Borovich and Chester Podgorsky on Sam Brear talking to ____________
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Bildung and Ressentiment
Civil War, 1936 to 1941: Midland Steel (readings)
Schiller Hall: Bildung and Modernity (readings)
Joe Adams on atheism of his peers (the Reuther group and beyond) North Dakota, Postel, Montgomery, Guttman
Orality and Literacy Ong, Olson, Luria, Heretz, Mironov
Paul Silver (Detroit Steel Products) on print vs. oral cultures on the shopfloor ONG LURIA
Saul Wellman (CP, Flint) on escape from the idiocy of orality
Rosenfeld and Musso
Bildungsproletarians and their other
Herman Burt on Polish women
Bill Jenkins on the Bulgarians
Williams et. al. on hillbillies in Pontiac LIST n=37
Shelton Tappes and Herman Burt on Uncle Toms
Frank Fagan on the "Americans"
Plebeian upstarts
Emergence of a UAW local
Bud Simon's letter; robt travis letter
Departmental biographies
Frank Fagan on welding and welders
Joe Adams and Art Grudzen on the Trim department
Edmund Kord's synoptic view
the Flying Squadrons: a workers' militia?
Events
Bud Simon on the firing of the two welders
•John Anderson re 3 locals
•John Anderson on CP in flux, critical period (this is part of Thermidor)
Joe Adams on 1943 strike
Earl Reynolds on first encounter
Edmund Kord on stubb out cigarettes
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UAW Timeline
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Looking at the masses
the iwo
Most of them were part of the trans-Atlantic population movements out of central, northern, and western europe.
They were, most of all, intensely rather that merely literate.
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Most of them
were neither skilled workers in the sense as it was understood at the
time (skilled trades & tool & die), but neither were they
laborers or assemblers. Some were press operators: most were
welders, trimmers, semi-skilled skilled machine workers and repairmen.
Paul Silver gives a succinct and clear characterization of this kind of
work as cognitive process. In Midland steel it ws the welders on the asembly line; in Dodge Main trimmmers and welders
It
is this literary and cognitive aspect of the lives of these leaders
that is central to an understanding of not only the formation of the
UAW, but also the formation of the Keynesian Elite in the New Deal
state.
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Bill Jenkins
the Bulgarians
Frank Fagan
the "Americans"
welding
Paul Silver
Edmund Kord
Bill Mazey
Midland Steel
Barney Kluck
Herman Burt
Tiederman
Dodge Main
Joe Adams
Art Grudzen
Metal Finishing
Tony Podorsek
Bildungsroman
Joe Adams
Tony Podorsek
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GOING DOWN LISTS OF NAMES
Barney Kluck 1941 Wage Adjustment list for non-production workers: anomie/private
Frank Fagan 1943 Convention delegates from Local 2 (Murray Body)
John Anderson (PF going down list of activists*)
Cliff Williams et. al. delegates to 1937 UAW Milwaukee Convention
Michigan Steel Tube (Emergence of a UAW Local as a list)
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Minutes,
Murray Body Committee Local 2 at Executive Board Meeting, April 26,
1939, Toledo Ohio, Addes Collection, Box 14.11, Reuther Archives
Detroit re. competitive situation in the spring and wire industry
Frank Fagan on 1943 Convention Local 2 delegates LIST; Fagan on the "Americans" in the IWW strike of 1933/Edgewater Ford strike/AAWA Hudson Black Legion (Kraus)
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RE. THE JOE ADAMS RATIO/10.6%
Paul Silver--Edmund Kord--John Anderson--MIDLAND STEEL
MST on relationship between Bildungsproletarian(s) and Plebeian Upstarts
The Charlie Yaeger ratio (7.2%)
Cliff Williams vs. Bert Harris rational-bur-bild vs. RMD
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FLYING SQUADRON:
Victor Reuther: Andeson, Indiana
Bud Simon: re Saginaw. Run out of town (almost lynched)
Paul Silver: Dodge Main Flying Squadron to the picket line
Paul Silver: the Ford Strike
Paul Silver: the Briggs Strike
Robert Travis to Chas
Bud Simon on workers from Toledo
Edmund Kord on the picket line
the Taking of Chevy 4, Skeels
On taking of truck and bus
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BILDUNGS-PROLETARIANS AND THEIR OTHER
Bill Jenkins on Bulgarians
Herman Burt on Polish women
Shelton Tappes on Local 600
Edmund Kord on the "gray mass"
Cliff Williams, Claude Henson and one other on Hillbillies in Pontiac
Barney Kluck on anomie in tool room
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THE JEWISH QUESTION IN FLINT
Larry Jones re. Van Zandt
Norm Bully on CP and City College
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PLEBEIAN UPSTARTS
BILDUNGSPROLETRIANS AND PLEBEIAN UPSTARTS
(THE QUESTION OF CHARISMA)
Timothy R. Pauketat, An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America (Routledge, 2012)
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"communists" in Packard and Allis Chalmers
Garrison to FF re. Christoffel
James Lindahl Collection
John Anderson on communists in general; in Midland Steel in particular
Bill Jenkins on Bulgarian group (communists?)
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THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER
Chris Johnson/Maurice Sugar: on size of CP in Detroit (Petrakovich interview)
Ron Schatz on IWO and UE
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Detroit East Side: UAW Locals: interviews
Leon Pody*
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Murray Body
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UAW Local 2 |
Frank Fagan
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Murray Body |
UAW Local 2 |
Frank Fagan*
| Murray Body | UAW Local 2 |
Lloyd Jones*
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Murray Body |
UAW Local 2 |
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Dick Frankensteen |
Dodge Main
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UAW Local 3
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Dick Frankensteen* | Dodge Main
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Charles Watson |
Dodge Main |
UAW Local 3 |
Harry Ross*
| Dodge Main | UAW Local 3 |
Richard Harris*
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Dodge Main |
UAW Local 3 |
Joe Adams |
Dodge Main |
UAW Local 3 |
Joe Ptazynski
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Dodge Main |
UAW Local 3 |
Earl Reynolds |
Dodge Main |
UAW Local 3 |
John Zaremba*
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Dodge Main
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UAW Local 3
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Sam Sweet
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Plymouth
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UAW Local 51
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John McDaniel |
Packard
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UAW Local 190 |
John McDaniel* | Packard
| UAW Local 190 |
Harry Kujawski |
Packard |
UAW Local 190 |
Eddie Dvornik |
Packard |
UAW Local 190 |
Adam Poplewski*
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Packard |
UAW Local 190 |
James Lindahl***
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Packard
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UAW Local 190
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Leonard Klue |
MICHIGAN STEEL TUBE |
UAW Local 238 |
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Paul Silver
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Detroit Steel Products
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UAW Local 351
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MIDLAND STEEL
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UAW Local 410
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John Anderson
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CP, Midland Steel
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MESA, UAW 155
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Chrysler Highland Park
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UAW Local 490
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Tony Podorsek
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Dodge, Cadillac
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A Homer Martin Local in the Eastside Ind Area: Midland Steel
Between the NRA and the CIO: the Making of the Unity Caucus
A Tale of Three Toolrooms
Midland Steel
Michigan Steel Tube
Dodge Main Earl Reynolds
Joe Adams and Art Gruzden relive the May 20, 1943 Strike
the 1937 sitdown strike
the November 1939 strike Rept
Joe Adams and Art Gruzden discuss the psychology and sociology of the workers in the Trim department
Joe Adams, Interview re. distrust of written
agreement; the men are looking at you. What are you going to do?
Be a shithead(?) In this discussion of the unspoken web of
communication
this is but one series of elements that can be spun out just from this one episode of May 20, 1943.
re. Allis-Chalmers, UAW Local 248 ➞ UE Locals: re. "CP"
Lloyd Garrison to Felix Frankfurter, April 29, 1941 distrust of written
Felix Frankfurter to Lloyd Garrison, May 14, 1941 distrust of written
Stalin Over Wisconsin
Packard: Proceedinggs 1943;
James Lindahl papers (Reuther Archive)
Tony Podorsek on history of metal finishing
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A Wartime Strike/A Wartime Strike
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Groupings
Barney Kluck, Tool & Die the interviews: going down 1941 Non-production wage adjustments LIST
Barney Kluck and Bob Brenner ( switched vote, susequent investigation by PF) on the Tool Room
Ben Wainwright and the Elder Report (north Euro Prot, English swing group of moderate but definitely modern citizens
Cliff
Williams and Frank Fagan (Racism in Pontiac; telling it like it is in
Murray Body 1943 LIST Catholic (ACTU) part of coalition with racist forces in uaw
"On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
(German: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne, also called
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense[1]) is a philosophical essay
by Friedrich Nietzsche. It was written in 1873, one year after The
Birth of Tragedy,[2] but was published by his sister Elisabeth in 1896
when Nietzsche was already mentally ill. The
work deals largely with epistemological questions about the nature of
truth and language, and how they relate to the formation of concepts."
Herman Burt on Racism on the shopfloor (LUNCH)
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Patrimonialism and White Supremacy: the view from the shop floor
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Detroit East Side: Midland Steel, UAW Local 410: interviews
Bob Brenner |
Tool and Die |
Barney Kluk |
Tool and Die |
Ed Tyll |
Tool and Die |
Jim Peters
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Chrysler line
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Oscar Oden
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Chrysler line |
Ben Wainwright | Chrysler line |
John Perry | Chrysler line |
William Hintz | Chrysler line |
Joe Block | Chrysler line |
Tiedermann | Chrysler line |
George Bidinger
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Large presses
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George Borovich |
Large presses |
Chester Podgorski |
Large presses
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Podgorsky-Bidinger
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Earl Pollntz
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Louis Voletti | Large presses |
Lawrence Voletti | Large presses |
Herman Burt | Paint Machine |
Levi Nelson | Shipping & Recieving |
Agnes Baransky
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Small presses
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Lotte Klas
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Small presses
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John Anderson
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Organizer, Local 155
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Art Lamb
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Works Manager
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Almdale and Newby |
Cleveland. VPs Frame Division
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BRIGGS
Bill Mazey
Ken Morris
A Tale of Three Toolrooms
Midland Steel
Michigan Steel Tube
Dodge Main Earl Reynolds
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Detroit East Side. Connor Ave: UAW Locals: interviews
Jack Zeller
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Chrysler-Jefferson
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UAW Local 7 |
Ed Carey*
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Chrysler-Jefferson |
UAW Local 7 |
Francis Moore
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Hudson
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UAW Local 154
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Minnie Anderson
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Hudson
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UAW Local 154
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Leon Pody*
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Leon Pody*
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Briggs
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UAW Local 212
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Bill Mazey
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Briggs
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UAW Local 212
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Ernie Mazey
| Briggs
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Ken Morris*
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Briggs |
UAW Local 212 |
Art Vega*
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Briggs |
UAW Local 212 |
Irwin Bauer
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Budd Wheel
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UAW Local 306
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SHILLER HALL AS HABITUS/ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT
Ed Lock: bildungsroman
1939 Chrysler Meeting
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COMMUNISTS OBSERVE RACISM
Herman Burt
Shelton Tappes
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BILDUNGS-PROLETRIANS ON THE "AMERICANS"
Cosmopolitans vs. Provincvials
Frank Fagan
Bud Simons
•Larry Jones-Clint van Zandt incident
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Detroit West Side & Dearborn: UAW Locals: interviews
Ed Lock
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Ford
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UAW Local 600 |
Percy Llewelyn
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Ford
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UAW Local 600
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Shelton Tappes |
Ford
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UAW Local 600
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Shelton Tappes* | Ford
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John Anderson
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Fleetwood
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UAW Local 15 |
Irene Marinovich (I)
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Ternstedt
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UAW Local 174 |
Mary Davis
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CP
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Stanley Novak
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CP/UAW
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Blain Marrin
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Tool & Die
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UAW Local 157 |
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Williams-Yaeger-Smith discuss 1937 Local 159 delegates to Milwaukee Convention LIST
Bud Simons as ethnographer
Frank Fagan as ethnographer
The ethics of interpretation: The signifying chain from field to
analysis, Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29(1)
· March 2008, Claudia Lapping
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the Elder Report ⊗ the Ben Wainwright interview re. Homer Martin and UAW Civil War
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Racism, Patrimonialism
Bert Harris: Press Room; BlackLegion (Cliff Williams on)
A Prison Yard incident: Turk's gang vs. the black Muslims re. patrimonialism
x-ref "tar-dipping incident"
incident reported: "Unionists Linked to Tar-Party"DT 6-11-37
hearing reported: ["Tar-dipping is Laid to Five" DN 12-10-37] (blurred)
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Flint and Pontiac: UAW Locals: interviews
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Michael Tomasello, Becoming Human: a Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard, 2019): Shared, Collective intentionality; the cultural intelligence hypothesis
Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr., Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (New York University Press, 1994)
Simon Jarvis, Wordsworth's Philosophical Song (Cambridge, 2007): Beyond the transcript
Jerrold Seigel, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience since the Sesventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2005)
“Language, Culture, and Mind: trends and standards in the latest penddulum swing,” N. J. Enfield. Journal of the Royal Anthropolitical Institute (N.S.) 19, 155-169. (2013)
. . . distinctly human
social cognitive capacities that include the bases of trust,
co-operative and altruistic propensities, moral capacities, shared
intentions and agency, sensitivity to local norms, and high-level
abilities to model and track what others believe and what they know.
Schiller in Barnow
Frank Fagan (Murray Body) provides both a synoptic view of the
operation and is in fact an embodiment of the kind of
bildungs-proletarian who were at the center of agency. He is an
actor in his time, and a collaborator in mine the extended mind of the
unity caucus
Two Bildungsromans: Joe Adams and Tony Podorsek
BILDUNGS-PROLETRIANS ON THE "AMERICANS"
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Toledo, Milwaukee, South Bend, and Cleveland
Wyndham Mortimer |
White Mtr (Cleve.), Flint
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CP & UAW
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Al Rightly
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Studebaker
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UAW Local 5 |
BOOK: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934
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Auto-Lite
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AFL-18384
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George Addes*
| Willys Overland (Toledo)
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Robert Travis
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Chevrolet (Toledo) |
Flint Sitdown strike
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Joseph Ditzel*
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Chevrolet (Toledo)
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James Roland*
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Chevrolet (Toledo) |
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Roy H. Speth*
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Seaman Body (Milwaukee)
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BOOK: Stalin Over Wisconsin
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Allis-Chalmers
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UAW Local 248
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Garrison to FF re. Christoffel
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Allis-Chalmers |
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Podorsek 1.1
Flynn effect; bildungsroman
family history; father killed in coal mines polish in Pa. 16 miles atone
first job in silk mill 1918 (12 yrs old)
strike united textile workers 50 hrs week, 3.50 a week
RR; UMW;
KKK
comes to Detroit
Briggs metal finish
LEARNS SKILLS
1.2
BUDD WHEEL 26
worked hudson metal fin, dingman body plant
Fisher body cleveland
east side neighborhood
hillbillies & Belgians
talking streets list firms where neighborhood worked in nearby plants
A LOT ON METAL FINISHING
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Job Description for Wage Studies. Metal working industries, US Dept Labor, BLS. Nov., 1945. [this leaves out trim, paint, and foundry depts] See also selected occupations.
Cliff Williams-Yellow Cab
Tony Podorsek on metal finishing.
Paul Silver on paint testing
Joe Adams and Art Gruzen on trim
Frank Fagan on welding--on his department name by name.
Billl Mazey on welding
Almdale and Newby on welding
Williams on door-hanging
Industry wage study. Appendix A-W. Job descriptions for wage studies.
Job descriptions for wage studies in the metalworking industries plant
this leaves out trim and paint depts, foundry, all of which are major workspaces in the plants of auto manufacturers, circa 1937
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summary:
Assembler
Machine operator
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▶︎❖Acid Dipper
•Adjuster, Machine
Assembler
••Class A (Cliff Williams-Doorhanger )
•Class B
▷Class C
Automatic Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
••Carpenter, Maintenance
Coater Operator
••Crane Operator, Electric Bridge
••Die Setter
•••Die Sinker
Drill-Press Operator, Radial (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Single- or Multiple-Spindle (Class A, B, C)
Electrician, Maintenance
Electrician, Production
Engine-Lathe Operator
Class A
Class B
Class C
Forging Press Operator, Hydraulic (Vertical)
Grinding Machine Operator
Class A
Class B
Class C
Inspector
Class A
Class B ( . . . where considerable care is essential to achieve very close tolerances)
Class C
Loader and Unloader (Shipping and Receiving)
•Machine-Tool operator, misc. machines
••Machinist, Maintenance
••Machinist, Production
Milling-Machine Operator
•Class A
Class B
Class C
Millwright
Polisher and Buffer, Metal (aka metal finishing): Charles Watson, Local 3-Tony Podorsek
Power-Shear Operator (Class A, B, C)
Punch-Press Operator
Class A,
Class B)
Riveter, Hydraulic
Riveter, Pneumatic
Screw-Machine Operator, Automatic (
Class A, B, C)
Set-Up Man, Machine Tools
•Solderer
•Stock Clerk
•Swager
Tester (Class A, B, C)
•••Tool and Die Maker
Trucker, Hand
•Trucker, Power
Welder, Hand (Class A, B, C)➤Bill Mazey interview
• or •• ? Turret-Lathe Operator, Hand (Including Hnad-Screw Machine) (Class A, B, C)
• ? Welder, Machine (Class A, B)
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Occupations in Metalworking Industry (Autos & Parts)
A. Production
Assembler (Class A, B, C) (Cliff Williams-Doorhanger )
Machine operator classifications
Automatic Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Radial (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Single- or Multiple-Spindle (Class A, B, C)
Engine-Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Grinding Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Machine-Tool operator, misc. machines
Milling-Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Power-Shear Operator (Class A, B, C)
Punch-Press Operator (Class A, B)
Screw-Machine Operator, Automatic (Class A, B, C)
Turret-Lathe Operator, Hand (Including Hnad-Screw Machine) (Class A, B, C)
Swager
Forging Press Operator, Hydraulic (Vertical)
Other metal-working occupations
Welder, Hand (Class A, B) (Bill Mazey, Frank Fagan interviews); Almdale and Newby on welding
Welder, Machine (Class A, B)
Polisher and Buffer, Metal (aka metal finishing): Charles Watson, Local 3; Tony Podorsek (Connor Ave, Dodge Main, and Cadillac)
Riveter, Hydraulic
Riveter, Pneumatic
Solderer (Edmund Kord)
Non-metalworking occupations in the Auto industry
Trim (Joe Adams and Art Grudzen on trim)
paint (Paul Silver on paint testing)
Production
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Assembler (Class A, B, C)
Machine operator classifications
Automatic Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Radial (Class A, B, C)
Drill-Press Operator, Single- or Multiple-Spindle (Class A, B, C)
Engine-Lathe Operator (Class A, B, C)
Grinding Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Machine-Tool operator, misc. machines
Milling-Machine Operator (Class A, B, C)
Power-Shear Operator (Class A, B, C)
Punch-Press Operator (Class A, B)
Screw-Machine Operator, Automatic (Class A, B, C)
Turret-Lathe Operator, Hand (Class A, B, C)
Swager
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Forging Press Operator, Hydraulic (Vertical)
Other metal-working occupations
Welder, Hand (Class A, B) (Bill Mazey, Frank Fagan interviews); Almdale and Newby on welding
Welder, Machine (Class A, B)
Polisher and Buffer, Metal (metal finishing)
Riveter, Hydraulic
Riveter, Pneumatic
Solderer (Edmund Kord)
Non-metalworking occupations in the Auto industry
Trim (Joe Adams and Art Grudzen on trim)
paint (Paul Silver on paint testing)
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Maintenance, Tool and Die, Shipping and Receiving
Carpenter, Maintenance
Crane Operator, Electric Bridge
Die Setter
Die Sinker
Tool and Die Maker
Trucker, Hand
Trucker, Power
Electrician, Maintenance
Electrician, Production
Millwright
Set-Up Man, Machine Tools
Loader and Unloader
Stock Clerk
Inspector (Class A, B, C)
Tester (Class A, B, C)
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B. non-Production
Maintenance, Tool and Die, Shipping and Receiving
Carpenter, Maintenance
Crane Operator, Electric Bridge
Die Setter
Die Sinker
Tool and Die Maker
Trucker, Hand
Trucker, Power
Electrician, Maintenance
Electrician, Production
Millwright
Set-Up Man, Machine Tools
Loader and Unloader (Shipping and Receiving)
Stock Clerk
Inspector (Class A, B, C)
Class A
Class B ( . . . where considerable care is essential to achieve very close tolerances)
Class C
Tester (Class A, B, C)
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These
interviews are a set of dialogic unfoldings that form a lens through
which to examine the ontologies and events, the transformations and
reactions, that are subsumed under the term unionization. The
factories, meeting halls, and neighborhoods of southeastern Michigan
are laboratories in which to investigate the play of forces: first, the
deep structures, the genetic ontologies (the principles of the
production of practices) that dominate the manifold areas of human
activity; and second, the irruption of forces of an entirely different
kind (Bordieu), referred to variously as agency, bildung, and the will
to power. In addition, some of these interviews forced me to include the more nebulous concept of jouissance.
This
first block of interviewees were all early leaders of the emergent
forces that came to be known as the UAW. Most of them were
Midwestern "socialists." Others were "communists." I refer to
them as bildungs-proletarians, around whom formed the action networks
of plebeian upstarts (the Unity Caucus) who created the modern UAW in March of 1939.
From the standpoint of praxis both the Unity Caucus and the Keynesian
elite should be conceived of as vanguard formations within the field of Progressivism.
What made this whole site possible is the literary and cognitive capabilities of the bildungsproletarian whom I interviewed
Michael Tomasello, Becoming Human: a Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard, 2019): Shared, Collective intentionality; the cultural intelligence hypothesis
Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr., Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (New York University Press, 1994)
Simon Jarvis, Wordsworth's Philosophical Song (Cambridge, 2007): Beyond the transcript
Jerrold Seigel, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience since the Sesventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2005)
from Charles Yaeger (Pontiac) Oral History transcript, pp. 11-12)
Finally
the CIO group, the Addes and Reuther forces in the union at that time,
called a special convention with the blessing of the parent CIO in
Cleveland, and there we organized what became the UAW-CIO.
We attended the Cleveland
Convention [March 27, 1939], and it was there that the union was born
after all this factional problem. Then, of course, we had to go
back and reorganize the plants because as much as the International was
torn asunder the locals were, too. We took over the local union
with(in) our unit of the old amalgamated [Local 156], which became
[local] 594. We took it over with about 7,000 people working in
the plant and 503 or 504 members. This was all the membership we
had. We did not have the union. [7.2]%
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